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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
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My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
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